Do Your Co-Workers Lack Common Bathroom Courtesy?

Do Your Co-Workers Lack This Kind of Bathroom Courtesy?

When I read a 20-paragraph article called "Beware of the Tinkler," I knew the author meant business. Sarah Kogan works for O, The Oprah Magazine and spends her free time fantasizing about smartly tracking down the office tinkler — you know, the person who leaves droplets on the seat to greet you as the next customer. While I've had my fair share of frustration over office tinklers, I've never had the drive to sit down and write a whole story about my desire to rid the tinkler of her title. Maybe it's one woman, maybe a few, but no matter how many are acting without courtesy it really is something we all could do without. So, tell me, do your co-workers have anything in common with Oprah's tinkler employee?

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5 years

Oh I think that this will have you all beat. The women in the office that I work in are completely GROSS!!! Not a day goes by that we dont find something sick in that bathroom. Let's see S--t smeared on the seat...drops of blood on the seat and even on the floor. Trash is full of NASTY things that you really DO NOT want to see. It has come to the point that I refuse to use the bathroom there. Thank God my parents house is less then a 1/4 mile from the office so I will go there instead. If anyone knows how to REMOVE a nasty pig PLEASE let me know!!!!!

5 years

We have it MUCH worse we have the tinkler and pooper. How disgusting to have flush someone else's waste down the toilet so you can use!! And there's never tissue in the commode so what is this poop and go? wear the soiled clothes home?!

6 years

We have a pooper and we know who! Luckily enough stalls for each lady. But the door is always ajar leaving the evidence evident for all. What if we have a lady visitor? I knew the tinkle sign but need one for pooo. Who would have thought that this would EVER be an issue for grown women?!?

I work in a small office and we have a co-ed bathroom. However, everybody practices good bathroom manners. The seat gets left up now and then, but so what? It takes about 10 seconds to put it down again. My husband comes home with some pretty far out tales about the bathrooms in his office building. It's always the same, solitary person who causes all the problems.
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I work in a small office and we have a co-ed bathroom. However, everybody practices good bathroom manners. The seat gets left up now and then, but so what? It takes about 10 seconds to put it down again. My husband comes home with some pretty far out tales about the bathrooms in his office building. It's always the same, solitary person who causes all the problems.:pepino:

We have a pooper but we all know who it is, not to go into details but she is morbidly obese and obviously cant wipe correctly and leaves......bits...and trails....and ya get the idea. poo on the door handles ladies...its why i use the mens room (we have one dude here and he is gay)

We share two bathrooms for about 6 men and 34 women. It's a constant war trying to get in there during class change! It's also a war to encourage people to use proper toilet ettiquette. Some guys will leave the seats up and the gals will leave a nice letter above the toilet reminding them to put it down. Some people leave pee in the toilet (thank goodness no poo!). Some people leave little dribbles on the seat.
I just line the seat with toilet paper and try not to think about who else's butt has touched the seat.
There's also a teacher who likes to spray a LOT of cologne (Named Bod I think. EW!) so it smells gross.

We share two bathrooms for about 6 men and 34 women. It's a constant war trying to get in there during class change! It's also a war to encourage people to use proper toilet ettiquette. Some guys will leave the seats up and the gals will leave a nice letter above the toilet reminding them to put it down. Some people leave pee in the toilet (thank goodness no poo!). Some people leave little dribbles on the seat. I just line the seat with toilet paper and try not to think about who else's butt has touched the seat.There's also a teacher who likes to spray a LOT of cologne (Named Bod I think. EW!) so it smells gross.

Our ladies room is really clean and we share it with several other companies. The poo thing I will never understand someone used to do that at one of my old jobs. The one thing I have a huge problem with is the people that do not wash their hands after going potty. When I was in college I was in the ladies room at a bar. A girl came out of the stall fluffed her hair, put on lipgloss, and left. There was no handwashing, her table was next to ours, and 2 minutes later she had her hands all over some guys face. All I could think was EWWWW! She didn't wash her hands.

I once had a job where there was one bathroom (one toilet, one sink) in our suite -there were more down the hall outside of our suite, but my department used the one bathroom because of the nature of the business I was in (wow, I made this story really complicated didn't I?!) I would come to work at night and there would ALWAYS be a banana peel in the trash and a coffee cup ring on the counter. Who eats and drinks in the bathroom?! Oh, and don't get me started about the time the toilet over flowed and all my stuff under my desk was soaked in toilet water!

at my office, there is a big handicap stall at the end of the bathroom, with its own sink/counter/mirror in it...well it's the pooping stall, very obviously, and every day you'll go in to pee and there's someone in there but is being very very quiet
the issue i have is that recently there's been Avon magazines left in there....and on the ground too. like, that's sick. you can't pick up a germy magazine and have a gander while you're doing your business, then stop and sit silently while someone else pees, then go about your business when they're gone...it's strange!

at my office, there is a big handicap stall at the end of the bathroom, with its own sink/counter/mirror in it...well it's the pooping stall, very obviously, and every day you'll go in to pee and there's someone in there but is being very very quietthe issue i have is that recently there's been Avon magazines left in there....and on the ground too. like, that's sick. you can't pick up a germy magazine and have a gander while you're doing your business, then stop and sit silently while someone else pees, then go about your business when they're gone...it's strange!

The worst thing that happens in my office is not using the air-santizing spray. If you got to do your business at work, that's fine... but try not to have it smell nasty for the next lady who comes in... that's why it's sitting on the counter.

It's not so bad here. Once in a while I see something on the seat, but not too often.
When I was a freshman in college, I shared a bathroom with maybe 20 other girls. Someone left poo IN THE SHOWER! WTF! A girl!
Those bathrooms were a nightmare. Actually the whole dorm felt more like a prison than anything.

It's not so bad here. Once in a while I see something on the seat, but not too often.When I was a freshman in college, I shared a bathroom with maybe 20 other girls. Someone left poo IN THE SHOWER! WTF! A girl!Those bathrooms were a nightmare. Actually the whole dorm felt more like a prison than anything.

Such a funny topic that so many people deal with. I share a bathroom with other offices on our floor, but there is a girl from another floor that comes down and clogs our 2nd toilet at about 3 everyday. Building maintence just comes to our floor to clean up everyday now because of all the calls that we make to complain!

Ha Bella, we have a phantom pooper here also! How hard is it to flush the toilet. Gross! I don't want to see other peoples poop! We also have tinklers. If you are gonna squat and you pee on the seat, wipe it up when you are done!